the table of elements does not contain one of the most powerful elements that make up our world, and that is the element of surprise.

Are you ready?" Klaus asked finally."No, " Sunny answered."Me neither, " Violet said, "but if we wait until we're ready we'll be waiting for the rest of our lives, Let's go.

Read about things that wouldn't keep you up all night long, weeping and tearing out your hair.

Almost everything I've done is technically wrong, but Paul never mentioned the mistakes, only the corrective measures.

Every artist writes his own autobiography.

I'm one of those people who really wants to do everything. And if I had enough time, I really would.

Marriage is - among other things - a study in contradiction and disappointment, and inside that reality there is space for us to truly learn how to love.

Neither love nor fire can subsist without perpetual motion; both cease to live so soon as they cease to hope, or to fear.

When you play a concerto with a small orchestra, you don't feel it is as important as Carnegie Hall. You try to work out all the little problems. Once that's all done, trust comes in.

I think I certainly know that the space I want to work in is a fearless space.

All fiction is a process of imagining: whatever you write, in whatever genre or medium, your task is to make things up convincingly and interestingly and new.

We should be worrying about if you live in the city you're more likely to have anxiety or mood disorders and to be schizophrenic. More than the problems people have from social media.

This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom